The Syrian President wants to normalize relations with neighboring countries in the region.
(Photo: via REUTERS)
Istanbul Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad wants to get out of political isolation – and was recently able to achieve success. The foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq met their Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Amman on Monday. It was about the Syrian conflict and a normalization of relations with the Assad government, as the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced.
Accordingly, the government in Damascus should now enable a safe return for Syrian refugees and coordinate this with other countries and the United Nations. According to the UN, most Syrian refugees now live in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
Syria’s membership of the Arab League was suspended in 2011 after government forces violently crushed protests in the country. The uprisings turned into a civil war that continues to this day. Assad is largely isolated because of his government’s violent crackdown on its own people.
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